So lovely to see this moment being remembered. Also makes me miss my home city!
07.03.2025 07:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
YEP! The Forty Elephants weren't even a gang in the Victorian period...!
25.02.2025 10:47 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Thank you!
21.02.2025 15:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Yeah, Alice Diamond appears late 1910s, much beyond Mary Carr. I guess another issue is that 'Forty Thieves' was a common name for gangs back then because of the popularity of Ali Baba...but historic newspapers always conflate these things to make our brains hurt!
21.02.2025 15:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Absolutely, would love to! 😍
21.02.2025 11:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Yep, getting frustrated by seeing the gang called 'Forty Elephants' when they were actually the 'Forty Thieves', so thank you for raising!
21.02.2025 09:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
‘An amazing gang of women crooks and blackmailers’: women, organized crime, and the ‘Forty Elephants’ gang in inter-war Britain
Abstract. Women’s participation in organized crime has been overlooked within historical research, with studies typically relegating their roles to that of
First post here! Sharing my latest article on the all-female 'Forty Elephants' gang (maybe of interest if you've been reading about the new #AThousandBlows show?) - read me for tales of women bandits, getaway driving and West End shoplifting! #historians #criminology #gangs doi.org/10.1093/tcbh...
21.02.2025 09:37 — 👍 55 🔁 17 💬 3 📌 4
Early modernist. Lecturer at Oxford Conted, IES, AIFS, & WEA. PhD from Birkbeck, 'The Marginal Dead of London, c.1600-1800'. London, suicides, crime & punishment, execution, dead bodies, burial, religious outsiders (esp Quakers). Co-editor How-to History
Criminologist interested in student engagement, drug policy, media representations of violence, and drug-related harm.
PhD student in Economic History, LSE.
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Research: death, disease & doctors during Apartheid
Methods: Applied econometrics and historical demography.
Teaching: Industrial Rev., History of Middle East
Assistant Professor of Soviet History. Studying Russian organized crime, veterans, disability, and gender. Kluge Fellow 2025-2026
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Broadening my knowledge and understanding of organised crime, and the use of intelligence in criminal investigations.
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Academic. University of York, Sociology. Personal account (and views are mine).
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Queens University Belfast. Associate Editor Journal of Youth Studies #youth #youth justice #conflict #gender
Lecturer | Historical Criminologist | Lancaster University | Everyday Exclusions as Penalty | Youth | Justice | Race | Gender | Creative Methods. What d*d T*psy s*y to L*ttle Eva?
I'm an environmental historian, currently working on 'dark natures' and their animal inhabitants. Previous work on captive environments, including my book The Wild Within.
Predoc Historia Contemporánea en la Universidad de Cantabria
Historia de las Mujeres, Movimientos Sociales cultura y activismo
Estudiando el Movimiento Feminista en Estados Unidos en los 60 y 70s
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Law professor, CUNY Law School. Author of "Imprisoned by the Past: Warren McClesky, Race, and the American Death Penalty" about the history of capital punishment. Criminal law, social justice, etc. he/him.
Historian of modern American medicine and disability
Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences, University of Bristol
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Working class history, photography, railways, skiing, cats, corvids and goats! A sense of humour is essential. Cat butler. Reluctant intellectual. Rare disease survivor. Born at 314.3ppm.
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